New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to say shooting someone wouldn’t lose him votes was “incredibly insensitive.”
De Blasio appeared on ABC’s “This Week” where he was asked to comment on Trump’s statement at a campaign rally.
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I
wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Trump said. “It’s, like, incredible.”
De Blasio called the comment “incredibly insensitive.”
“We had a moment in our nation’s history we’re
talking about how to deal with the scourge of gun violence,” de Blasio said. “And for someone who says he wants to be president to say that, it shows he’s
just not presidential.”
“You know, this is another indicator that Donald Trump is not ready for primetime,” de Blasio added.
The Mayor is right, but who can be surprised? An attention junkie like Trump needs his fix. At first his habit of dumping whatever effluvia is in his mind was shocking, but over the last months we have gotten used to it and so it does not pack the same wallop any more. So to keep the juices flowing, like a drug addict he has to up the dose in order to get the same kick — in the months to come what new highs, or lows, will he achieve?
I would tune him out if I could. Lots of luck with that.
Of course it’s insensitive but it shows that trump’s base is as intelligent as a box of hammers. And dangerous because he can tell them how to behave and they’ll do what he says.
I hate it when libs talk like that.
Now if he wanted to lose votes, he would apologize for being a flaming asshole.
Calling a Trump comment “insensitive” is like saying a ‘bull in a china shop’ is assertive.